Barbara Straumann. Eva Brugger, and Olivia Biber; Universität Zürich (Web)

Venue: Universität Zürich
Time: 10.- 12.06.2020
Proposals by: 10.02.2020

As in previous years, the conference will address women’s relationship to money and their participation in trade, banking, finance, forms of investment, speculation, gambling, consumerism, business and household management, wage labour, care work, charity and various other practices of exchange. The conference is interdisciplinary in nature, bridging literature, material culture, gender studies, economic history and feminist economics, and aims to relate the debates of past periods to modern-day issues concerning the presence and position of women in the economy and media.

The organizers welcome submissions on a wide range of topics connected to women’s involvement in the marketplace and finance, they particularly invite contributions to this year’s conference theme “Female Economies”. This can include the particular ways in which women participate in the traditional economy as well as economic domains in which women have been particularly active and influential. Yet the organizers are also interested in feminine economic activities and areas which have long been overlooked and which have not been regarded as economically relevant in classic economics, including the marriage market, care work, household management, philanthropy or the exchange of gifts.

Ahe theme can also be taken to refer to the textual economies developed by women authors addressing economic topics, including the textual genres (literary and non-literary) used by women writing about economic issues and concerns. Of equal interest is the role played by women in economic thought, the formation of economic theory and the historiography of capitalism. Read more and source … (Web)